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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] v4 - fold struct vcpu_info into CPUState
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:01:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49085E8D.4050305@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49073D0C.6030706@sgi.com>

Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's an updated version of the patch. It should fix the problems
> Hollis ran into, and also compile on x86_64 again :-)
>
> I managed to get rid of all the runtime use of qemu_kvm_cpu_env(),
> except for the hotplug code. But I think it's reasonable to do the
> walk of the linked list in that case. However, the more I have looked
> at this, the more obvious to me it becomes that it is right<tm> to
> expose struct CPUState to libkvm, and avoid passing around int vcpu.
>
> Comments and test reports very welcome!

FWIW, vcpu_info seems to have nothing to do with KVM.  It's entirely 
build around the IO thread.  The IO thread really isn't KVM specific.

I would just stick these fields in CPU_COMMON unconditionally if you're 
going to move them at all.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Cheers,
> Jes
>


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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] v4 - fold struct vcpu_info into CPUState
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:01:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49085E8D.4050305@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49073D0C.6030706@sgi.com>

Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's an updated version of the patch. It should fix the problems
> Hollis ran into, and also compile on x86_64 again :-)
>
> I managed to get rid of all the runtime use of qemu_kvm_cpu_env(),
> except for the hotplug code. But I think it's reasonable to do the
> walk of the linked list in that case. However, the more I have looked
> at this, the more obvious to me it becomes that it is right<tm> to
> expose struct CPUState to libkvm, and avoid passing around int vcpu.
>
> Comments and test reports very welcome!

FWIW, vcpu_info seems to have nothing to do with KVM.  It's entirely 
build around the IO thread.  The IO thread really isn't KVM specific.

I would just stick these fields in CPU_COMMON unconditionally if you're 
going to move them at all.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Cheers,
> Jes
>


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-29 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-28 16:25 [patch] v4 - fold struct vcpu_info into CPUState Jes Sorensen
2008-10-28 16:25 ` Jes Sorensen
2008-10-29 13:01 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-10-29 13:01   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-29 13:04 ` Jes Sorensen
2008-10-29 13:04   ` Jes Sorensen
2008-10-29 13:09 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-29 13:09   ` Anthony Liguori
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-29 15:24 [patch] " Jes Sorensen
2008-09-29 15:24 ` Jes Sorensen
2008-10-05 10:02 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-05 10:02   ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-05 20:48 ` Glauber Costa
2008-10-05 20:48   ` Glauber Costa
2008-10-13 22:24 ` Glauber Costa
2008-10-13 22:24   ` Glauber Costa
2008-10-17 15:28 ` Jes Sorensen
2008-10-17 15:28   ` Jes Sorensen
2008-10-17 21:27 ` Glauber Costa
2008-10-17 21:27   ` Glauber Costa
2008-10-24 15:57 ` Jes Sorensen
2008-10-24 15:57   ` Jes Sorensen
2008-10-24 19:10 ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-10-24 19:10   ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-10-27  9:48 ` Jes Sorensen
2008-10-27  9:48   ` Jes Sorensen
2008-10-27 16:02 ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-10-27 16:02   ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-10-27 16:06 ` Jes Sorensen
2008-10-27 16:06   ` Jes Sorensen

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